![]() ![]() If you look right there at the top, it says, add fonts from type kit. ![]() ![]() The thing that's confusing here is the fact that Adobe actually refers to these as Fonds. So what I'm looking at here is not a myriad pro font like from the drop down here. The rest of this information is the font information. And if I press the letter T to give me the type tool, I can open up the character panel and I can see here that the fought that I'm using is myriad pro at 142 points and the regular wait so myriad pro is the typeface. So shift option command on the Mac shift all control on the PC, and then the greater than sign to increase for the less than sign to decrease. And by the way, the quick way to blow up tax an illustrator is to basically hold down the entire left side of your keyboard and then the greater than or less than sign. And I'm just type out my name and blow it up. It doesn't really matter how big or how small you make the document, by the way, just so long as you have a document open and then what I'll do is just click here to add some text. St do a letter size document you can follow along with me if you want. All right, so I'll create a brand new document here. The rest of it is just information that is applied to the typeface to make it look a certain way. The typeface is Ariel the typeface family. So a font is a specific style of a given typeface. What you use is the actual styling of that. But as a designer, you should know that a typeface is something you see. Those terms are used interchangeably most of the time with the regular public, and that's that's perfectly OK. So when I'm talking about Helvetica or Aerial or Gotham or times New Roman, all of those are typefaces. The reason I say typeface and the reason I don't use font for the majority of what I'm saying is because of the fact that a typeface is the overall family that you're talking about. You've heard me say the word typeface probably a 1,000,000 times already. ![]()
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